This textbook is aimed at readers who have little or no knowledge of computer programming but want to learn to program in Python. It starts from the very basics including how to install your Python environment, how to write a very simple program and run it, what a variable is, what an if statement is, how iteration works using for and while loops as well as important key concepts such as functions, classes and modules. Each subject area is prefaced with an introductory chapter, before continuing with how these ideas work in Python.
Author(s): John Hunt
Edition: 2
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 787
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Front Matter
1. Introduction
2. Where is Python Used
3. Setting up the Python Environment
4. A First Python Program
5. Python Strings
6. Numbers, Booleans and None
7. Flow of Control Using if Statements
8. Iteration/Looping
9. Number Guessing Game
10. Recursion
11. Introduction to Structured Analysis
12. Functions in Python
13. Scope and Lifetime of Variables
14. Implementing a Calculator Using Functions
15. Introduction to Functional Programming
16. Higher-Order Functions
17. Curried Functions
18. Introduction to Object Orientation
19. Python Classes
20. Class Side and Static Behaviour
21. Class Inheritance
22. Why Bother with Object Orientation?
23. Operator Overloading
24. Python Properties
25. Abstract Base Classes
26. Error and Exception Handling
27. Python Modules and Packages
28. Protocols, Polymorphism and Descriptors
29. Decorators
30. Iterables and Iterators
31. Generators and Coroutines
32. Collections, Tuples and Lists
33. Sets
34. Dictionaries
35. Frozensets
36. Collection Related Modules
37. ADTs, Queues and Stacks
38. Map, Filter and Reduce
39. Sorting and Higher-Order Functions
40. Python Enumerated Values
41. Structural Pattern Matching
42. Python Virtual Environments
43. Monkey Patching
44. Attribute Lookup
45. The Python Bites Back
46. TicTacToe Game
